Enjoy beauty found in nature

9:14 AM,
Jan. 8, 2014

Written by

Clark Hicks
From the Community

Have you ever had an experience with nature that left you speechless? I am talking about walking through the woods or on a mountain or along a beach and being immediately awestruck at the beauty of this planet.

My family recently had the opportunity to hike and explore national parks on the West Coast. Yosemite National Park lies in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Northern California and thanks to President Theodore Roosevelt and other conservationists, the park is a natural treasure for the world to behold.

We drove into the Yosemite Valley to gaze upon the natural rock formations of El ...